Stoke Ferry, Norfolk

Description
Stoke Ferry, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Wissey, 7 miles ESE of Downham Market. It is the terminus of the Downham and Stoke Ferry branch of the G.E.R., and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) Acreage, 2298; population of the civil parish, 724; of the ecclesiastical, 672. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. It has a fair for horses and cattle on 6 Dec., and a hiring fair for servants on the Thursday before Old Michaelmas. It also carries on a fair amount of trade in corn, malt, and coals. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, which was restored in 1848, is a building of stone in the Early English style. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.